The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag incongruousjuxtapositionquotation Change image and share on social
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag accumulatephotographstrategy Change image and share on social
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Susan Sontag considerdeathdemean Change image and share on social
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag freezemeltmoment share on social
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag detailfixflash Change image and share on social
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag alienauthoritariandisease Change image and share on social
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. Susan Sontag governguiltinexorable Change image and share on social
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. Susan Sontag artificialartistcomment Change image and share on social
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. Susan Sontag capitalismconnoisseurexpansion Change image and share on social
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. Susan Sontag analysisartdehumanize Change image and share on social
